Lisp Web Framework: Kanamit

http://www.kanamitweb.net/

by rglullis • 18 years ago

36 18 18 years ago

asolove• 18 years ago

Major bug on SBCL. Line 4423 currently reads:

))

for portability purposes, it should read:

  #+(and :cltl2 (not (or :cmu :clisp :sbcl)))
   ))

rbanffy5• 18 years ago

Sorry. We will fix it ASAP.

Must have escaped out build tests. Won't happen again. ;-)

icey• 18 years ago

Their webpage is TERRIBLE. I'll have to check it out when it works. I can't get to anything other than the front page and the "About us" page.

shaunxcode• 18 years ago

I thought the same thing at first but those hover over deals are not meant to be links. If you read the subtext they say things like "download the source from news" etc. So it is meant to be a one page sort of affair. I dig simplicity! download and hack!

rglullis• 18 years ago

Source is here: http://www.kanamitweb.net/kwf1.0.0.tar.bz2

aggieben• 18 years ago

where's the screencast and documentation?

sohail• 18 years ago

Uh, this is a scam right?

KirinDave• 18 years ago

Evidently. I don't know why they bothered with any code at all let alone the dotimes stuff. Anyone who could get that code to run wouldn't be fooled.

sigstoat• 18 years ago

clearly an april fool's joke making the rounds late.

Hexstream3• 18 years ago

Their front page reads like a pompous ad. Why can't people simply describe their product and let it speak for itself if it's so great? (or maybe it's not)

Here's a better version, IMO:

"The Kanamit Web Framework provides a templating engine and a persistence mechanism that runs on [list of supported relational databases].

This web framework leverages the power of Lisp well. We have developed a library that comprises many real-world usage scenarios. It's portable across lisp implementations. We got it running on several flavors of Lisp on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and we are currently porting it to our faithful Symbolics 3600. We even got it running inside Emacs 22.

You should get a decent development environment. Emacs 22, Slime and GNU-Lisp are what we use, but if you really want to use Eclipse (some people compare it to Emacs) it should work.

You can also order our book here. It took a while to write, but we wanted it ready for the public launch of our project."

rbanffy5• 18 years ago

I am sorry. We have already given up building the site and were ready to let the idea wait for another year, but then our co-prankster, who didn't read the e-mails where we communicated our decision to postpone, called us on the phone and said the press-release was already on its way to tech publications all around. Then I had about one hour to write all the text you see in the cover, a couple news items excepted, while my other co-prankster was buying the domain, setting up hosting and uploading the HTML skeleton and designing the logo. I was sitting in a café waiting to pick up my wife while I banged this page.

From that OMFG moment, the denial-anger cycle that followed, to uploading the last touches, we made it all in about three hours.

We will plan better for next April. I promise.

BTW, the Slashdot submission is still pending. We may even be able to see it re-boom in a couple days.

rbanffy5• 18 years ago

"we had alreaday"... That's what you get when you are writing this late into the night.

Hexstream3• 18 years ago

You'd rather rush a product out the door than cancelling a press release?

Lisp Web Framework: Kanamit

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